Although premium templates offer a plenty of required and beautiful components that are required on every administrative applications, as a developer that loves open source, you may find as well everything what you need in a free template. For Vue.js there isn't an exception as you may find as well some (not plenty though) free templates that you can use to get started with your next project.
In this article we've collected 5 of the most imponents admin templates based on the Vue.js framework, enjoy them !
5. Vue Paper
Vue Paper Dashboard is a beautiful resource built over Bootstrap and Vue. It will help you get started developing dashboards in no time. Vue Paper Dashboard is a Vue ported version of the Original Paper Dashboard. Using the Dashboard is pretty simple but requires basic knowledge of Javascript, Vue and Vue-Router. Vue Paper Dashboard was coded by Cristi Jora and the design was made by Creative Tim. It combines soft colors with beautiful typography and spacious cards and graphics. It is a powerful tool, but it is light and easy to use. It has enough features to allow you to get the job done, but it is not crowded to the point where you can't find the files for a specific plugin.
4. CoPilot
CoPilot is a fully responsive admin template, originally forked from AdminLTE. The difference here is that this repo is tailored to use with Vue.js. The UI is based on the Bootstrap 3 framework. Highly customizable and easy to use. Fits many screen resolutions from small mobile devices to large desktops.
In an attempt to keep the project clean, the developer didn't included every plugin/feature that AdminLTE offers. You simply need to add the plugin in the /static/js/plugin folder to include them or use npm. The template includes obviously the important ones. The structure of the app is scaffolded by vue-cli. Which is a simple CLI tool that setups our environment. CoPilot uses the webpack package. So we get a full-featured Webpack + vue-loader setup with hot reload, linting, testing & css extraction.
3. CoreUI Vue
CoreUI is an Open Source Bootstrap Admin Template. But CoreUI is not just another Admin Template. It goes way beyond hitherto admin templates thanks to transparent code and file structure. And if that's not enough, let’s just add that CoreUI consists bunch of unique features and over 1000 high quality icons. CoreUI is based on Bootstrap 4 and offers 6 versions: HTML5 AJAX, HTML5 Static, AngularJS, Angular 2+, React.js & Vue.js.
2. Vuestic Admin
Responsive admin dashboard template built with Vue.js and Bootstrap 4. It has been developed by Epicmax and designed by Vasili Savitski. The template as mentioned, doesn't require jQuery, it's totally responsive and open source. It offers more than 36 UI elements and 18 pages from where you can get inspiration to build your own admin template.
1. Vue Admin
Vue Admin is a free Vue.js based Admin Panel Framework, Powered by Vue 2.0 and Bulma 0.3. The project by itself is open source and it's on ongoing development, made possible thanks to the support by some backers on Patreon and OpenCollective (any contribution is appreciated). You can as well make code contributions by making pull requests on the official repository at Github.
Honorable mentions
Basix Admin
Basix Admin is an Open Source Vuejs Admin Template. Most of all necessary featured are pre developed within the Template. We've added 60+ Widgets and 80+ Components variations. It's not just a admin template, it's all in one to Develop your personal Admin Dashboard. You can access to 5000+ Icons (Fontawesome, Brandico, Entypo, Fontelico, Glyphicons, Iconic Stroke, Ionicons, Maki, OpenWeb Icons). Advanced Google Maps Integrations will help you set your desired design easily.
If you know another awesome free admin template based on the Vue.js framework, please share it with the community in the comment box.
